Esteri

given name · Latin script

Meaning: ester (compound with carbon-oxygen double bond joined via carbon to another oxygen atom)

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/əstɛɹi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Esteri is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Finland than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • FIFinland1 in 997(measured from records)
  • SESweden1 in 40K
  • ALAlbania1 in 171K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Esteri itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Finland (measured from records)

5,589 people

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
5 (measured from records)

Reference-verified

1 in 997 (inferred from the name graph)

Finland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

EsteriLatin(measured from records)
ესთერიGeorgian(measured from records)

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

ester (compound with carbon-oxygen double bond joined via carbon to another oxygen atom)

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 29 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Esteri counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Esteri is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
FI Finland5,5891 in 99723K——
SE Sweden2561 in 40K256——
GE Georgia32as ესთერი1 in 125K32Esteri5
AL Albania181 in 171K17——
NO Norway——8——

5,589 people counted by DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register). Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Georgia PSDA/SDA civil-registry name statistics (per-token API); INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Esteri is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Italian, ; Foreign Affairs, foreign news

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Catalan, stere

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In zza, horn

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1850190019502000Esteri Paalanen, b. 1886Esteri Karilas, b. 1890Esteri Vuorinen, b. 1896Esteri Häikiö, b. 1900Esteri Tomula, b. 1920Eila Paakkinen, b. 1929Sirkka Sinkkonen, b. 1935E. Ohenoja, b. 1937Helmi Morri, b. 1938Esteri Tebandeke, b. 1984

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

How to address them(machine-generated)

Informalनमस्ते Esteri जी,Hi Esteri, (English)

A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 14 sources across 10 countries.

Official registers attesting Esteri
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—23K#108
FI FinlandDVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register)—5.6K—
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—256#4,391
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)199952—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)200051—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)200249—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)200149—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)200448—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)200348—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)200746—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)200646—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)200546—

Reference works 2

  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Esteri mean, and where does it come from?
ester (compound with carbon-oxygen double bond joined via carbon to another oxygen atom) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Esteri?
A machine transcription gives /əstɛɹi/ (IPA) for Hindi.
Is Esteri a male or female name?
Esteri is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What are other forms of the name Esteri?
In the etymology graph, Esther, Ester and Essie are forms of the same name in other languages; Essi is a recorded short or pet form.
In which country does Esteri have the most bearers?
In Finland, the national register counted about 5.6 thousand people named Esteri, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Esteri most common?
Esteri is densest in Finland, where the national register counts about 1 in 997 people carrying it.
How common is the name Esteri?
In Finland, the national register counted 5,589 people named Esteri, about 1 in 997 residents.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Esteri”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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